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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Yousef who wrote (48819)2/6/1999 1:10:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1571690
 
Re: "Without FET's with high drive currents (940ua/um N, 420ua/um P), Low K dielectrics, ... AMD doesn't stand a chance at keeping up in the
"Mhz race" (tm Yousef)."

Not with their current architecture I agree, however AMDs arguement is that with deeper pipelines - read: fewer gates between flops, they can achieve higher frequencies because of shorter delays between stages. My question is that if this is true shouldn't we see the other devices using this technique enjoying the same benifits? Why does IBM need copper to still fall behind Intel in the mhz race? They use RISC design techniques. So does SPARC and they're lower frequency as well. Why? Alpha seems to be the only one who can ship in limited quantities with high frequencies but their new 21264 that is just beginning to limp out the door is at 500mhz.

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